Refrigerated warehousing · Kansas

Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC

Name: Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Edwardsville, KS · ~156 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 2.4
Avg TCR: 5.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Refrigerated warehousing workplace, earning a grade A.

Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC: 2.4 TCR = 42% of Refrigerated warehousing BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC safety composite

Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC: 1.6 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2019

Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.6 in 2018 to 3.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Edwardsville, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.4 · 42% of ind

DART 2.8 DART
RANK #2/14
PHOTO WM 6095
BOOK 2y book
INJ 10 inj
SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 6095 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC averages 2.4 TCR (42% of the Refrigerated warehousing BLS benchmark).

Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC TCR series: 2018=1.6 · 2019=3.2 · BLS 5.8

Where Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC falls in its industry

1,039 Refrigerated warehousing establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 14 Refrigerated warehousing employers in Kansas.

Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC (156 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Smithfield Foods - Edwardsville DC has more employees than the Refrigerated warehousing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses	Fatalities
2019	3.2	2.8	7	1	0
2018	1.6	1.6	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · KS · Edwardsville

1,039 Refrigerated warehousing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 40 employers in Edwardsville, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	WM 6095	OPELIKA, AL	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Midwest Refrigerated Madison (Terminal), LLC	MCFARLAND, WI	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	USCS- Turlock, CA	TURLOCK, CA	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Laredo II	LAREDO, TX	2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Dynamic NC	ROSE HILL	156 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pitsco Inc	PITTSBURG	156 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1282	CONCORDIA	156 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ellsworth County Medical Center	ELLSWORTH	156 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KCY	Edwardsville	553 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kansas City KS FXFE-KCY	Edwardsville	544 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MO100	Edwardsville	348 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kansas City(Edwardsville)-PRW	Edwardsville	325 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ross store 1169	St. Petersburg, FL	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	GLC Woodlands	Newburgh, IN	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Crestmark Architectural Millworks Inc.	Arcata, CA	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Design	Irvine, CA	2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	LW Engineering Plant 8	Avon, OH	156 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cumberland Trace	Plainfiled, IN	156 FTE
NAT-SIZE	2nd Street Clinic	Duluth, MN	156 FTE
NAT-SIZE	373 - Grandville	Grandville, MI	156 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.